Spring Break
Madonna treats the world with delicious new "Candy"
Alex Nagorski
Issue date: 10/2/08 Section: Life!
What's needed for a successful comeback, especially for a starlet of the 80s? Paula Abdul's answer is to recruit modern hit making producers such as Will.I.Am to revamp her old hits and mix them with new songs. The result is a "new" album set to be released this year. Janet Jackson attempted to pull off a similar feat with her atrocious new album "Discipline," which for some unexplainable reason debuted at #1. For Madonna, however, a comeback is a complete change of both sound and style.
The reigning and untouchable queen of pop evolves on each one of her records, experimenting with completely different genres each time around. Most recently, it was 2005's exquisite techno-influenced dance record "Confessions On A Dance Floor" that reminded the world why we fell in love with Madge in the first place. Still conquering charts twenty-eight years after the release of the debut album that set her on the path to a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the original Material Girl is back with a new album and a brand new sound.
Having not only achieved record-breaking album and tour sales, Madonna has also been a Golden Globe winning actress (1996's "Evita"), an author, a fashion designer for retail giant H&M, a leading figure in the Hollywood trend of Kabbalism, and the director of a humanitarian documentary called "I Am Because We Are" to raise awareness of the severe issues in Malawi. But now she is ready to rewind to the beginning of her huge resume and plunge head first back into the music market. In the process, she's transcending the pop borders she is accustomed to and crossing over into the hip hop field.
Recruiting current platinum ensuring producer Timbaland as well as hitmakers Pharell and Nate "Danja" Hills, Madonna revolutionizes herself yet again. With the top producers in the industry working with the top pop star, it was a collaboration guaranteed to not only create another hip hop influenced pop album, but the definitive genre defining album.
The reigning and untouchable queen of pop evolves on each one of her records, experimenting with completely different genres each time around. Most recently, it was 2005's exquisite techno-influenced dance record "Confessions On A Dance Floor" that reminded the world why we fell in love with Madge in the first place. Still conquering charts twenty-eight years after the release of the debut album that set her on the path to a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the original Material Girl is back with a new album and a brand new sound.
Having not only achieved record-breaking album and tour sales, Madonna has also been a Golden Globe winning actress (1996's "Evita"), an author, a fashion designer for retail giant H&M, a leading figure in the Hollywood trend of Kabbalism, and the director of a humanitarian documentary called "I Am Because We Are" to raise awareness of the severe issues in Malawi. But now she is ready to rewind to the beginning of her huge resume and plunge head first back into the music market. In the process, she's transcending the pop borders she is accustomed to and crossing over into the hip hop field.
Recruiting current platinum ensuring producer Timbaland as well as hitmakers Pharell and Nate "Danja" Hills, Madonna revolutionizes herself yet again. With the top producers in the industry working with the top pop star, it was a collaboration guaranteed to not only create another hip hop influenced pop album, but the definitive genre defining album.